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Best Answer: it is "repealed" by God....revelation from Him to His prophet just like it has always been (see bible)

and BTW - if we're pulling up the past...let's see how many religions or governments for that matter have always been aware of equality.....
the LDS church always had black members, and their meetings were never segregated (except for a short time in brazil as ordered by the brazilian government and against what the LDS put in place) but, yes, there was a time - we don't really know why - from the late 1800's to 1978 that blacks were not allowed to hold the priesthood. once that policy was in place - it took revelation from God to change it.

Blacks have always been allowed to become members of the Church. The LDS Church is the only Church which has never segregated its services, and black have been allowed to join in dances and parties. Papers of the day decried the practice in the Church of blacks dancing with whites or even attending those dances. Blacks were even given the priesthood in the early days of the Church, check out Elijah Abel and his sons and grandsons.

I do not know the second president, Brigham Young, I was born years after his death. But I do know that even he stated that one day the blacks would have the priesthood bestowed upon them once more. And his talks about white and blacks marrying were not that. White and blacks could not get married in the south. Those talks were about rape, the white slave master have sex with his black slave women (and girls). Any sexual relations outside a marriage, were considered to be a rape in the eyes of God's laws. And, many of those sexual relations were not consensual. Now I don't know about you, but to me non-consensual sex is rape.

Now I also don't know much about the human climate in the 1800s, since I live in 2012. But I do believe that Brigham Young did know, and based several of his comments on that knowledge. He knew that slavery was rampant in the south and that those same people, who ran the Mormons out of Illinois, would be against any of their slaves joining the Church and being given the priesthood. How do you think they would have reacted had a black priest tried to baptize a white person?

There was a very big misconception of the priestly powers then, and even now. Most believe that power is the same as the priesthood in the Catholic church. It is not, but the ex/anti-Mormons push that belief and many believe it. The fact that any boy, above the age of 12, can hold a priesthood power, and our male missionaries can be called 'elders' even though they are only about 18-20 years old is proof of that.

Edit: @Mike 64. Read that entire chapter. You will find that the quote you give is for the Lamanites, descendants of one Hebrew man, not any blacks from Africa. The Book of Mormon does not refer to any African blacks in its entirety. And the curse was the separation from God, the skin color was nothing more than a marker so that those who were still with God would not marry anyone who was not.

The Book of Mormon even shows that those, whose skin had been darkened, became more righteous than their cousins, the Nephites. So how can the darkening of the skin be the curse?

Funny how the Mormons will say that they do not know why. Maybe reading some passages from Mormon Holy books might give us a clue....YOU THINK.

From the Book of Mormon
And he had caused the CURSING to come upon them yea, even a sore CURSING because of their iniquity For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint: wherefore as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a SKIN of BLACKNESS to come upon them (2 Nephi 5 :21)

From the Mormon Holy book " peral of great price"
". . . there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised among all people . . . (Moses 7:8)."

"And . . . they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them (Moses 7:22).

The only honest, and educated answer that anyone can give that does not involve speculation is, "We do not know."
We do not even know for sure who started the ban, or when it was started. And until we get information like that, it is highly unlikely that we will learn the reasons behind it.

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The Book of Mormon talks about some of the ancestors of the American Indians. It never once talks about anyone of African Descent who are the only group to have been even in part banned from holding the priesthood.

Which brings up a question that we really do not have an answer for (at least if we do not speculate). If the idea of God cursing people is the reason for the ban on the priesthood and it is an undisputed fact among Mormons that some of the ancestors of the American Indians were cursed by God in the exact manner that our critics claim is the reason for the priesthood ban, then why is it that the Native Americans were never banned from the priesthood.

Like I said there is no answer for why the priesthood ban was initiated. In reality if you want to factor in the Book of Mormon then all you get from that is that the ban could not have been based off of some sort of prejudicial doctrine as our critics like to claim because if it was then the Native Americans would have been banned from the priesthood as well or instead of those of African descent.

Ever thought that it was for safety reasons? People were shot for sitting on the frikin bus! How would the mob have reacted if they had learned that there were black priests in the church. No one was prevented from going to a meeting(Which wasn't segregated) or being blessed, or baptized or married, or whatever!

Stop parroting your stupid ignorant prejudice!

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During that time period, unlike now, every worthy man in the church wasn't called to the priesthood. I don't know the reason for the ban. I do know that to simply label the church racist because of it ignores a lot of facts.

For example:
There is biblical precedent for not calling certain groups of people to the priesthood, in fact gentiles weren't even allowed to join the church until after the resurrection.

One of the major reasons Mormons were driven out of Missouri was because the Mormons were mostly against slavery.

A lot of saints prayed for a very long time for the blessings of the gospel among the black people. When the announcement was made that they could hold the priesthood there were already regularly organized congregations all over the place with black men who were worthy to become not just priests, but Elders, Bishops, Stake Presidents, and even area authority 70's.

The reason that Black people of African descent were not allowed to have the Priesthood (though in some cases they petitioned and they were allowed) is because Non-Mormon and particularly Anti-Mormon Mormon haters, started slavery and continued slavery of Black people of African Descent in the United States.

Because so many of the owners of the slaves in America were such big time Anti-Mormons the possibility that Black people of African Descent was made completely impossible because of that.

After the Blacks were freed from slaver after the Civil War, they were put into virtual slavery, because they were denied access to land ownership and the right to vote.

It took the civil rights movement to finally, a hundred years after the Civil War, to allow Black people to finally get equality with other people. Before this they were completely under the thumb of Anti-Mormons who hated The Church Of JESUS CHRIST Of Latter Day Saints, much more than they hated Black people of African descent.

So having a Black man to be a Priest in THE Church Of JESUS CHRIST Of Latter Day Saints was completely unthinkable because of the virulent murderous hatred of the White Masters of Black people had against any and all Mormons

and these Anti-Mormon slimeballs could order a Black person to do anything and if they did not do it, the White Anti-Mormons could...

whip the Black Mormon Priest, they could whip and beat the Black Mormon Priest's wife, and they could rape the Black Mormon Priests underage daughters...

the slimy Anti-Mormons could do all sorts of Demonic things against Black people if the owned them back then.

Therefor because the Anti-Mormons who held Black people completely in chains,

and they were allowed to get away with anything (and let's not be naive, they did dastardly things to Black people these Anti-Mormon Black slave owners), THE Church Of JESUS CHRIST Of Latter Day Saints could not allow Black people in leadership positions.

OBVIOUSLY.

You can't allow someone who is being held hostage to pilot an airplane, nor can you allow a whole entire people who had their rights hijacked run THE Church Of JESUS CHRIST Of Latter Day Saints.

Mormons could do nothing except pray that slavery would end.

Joseph Smith arose like a lion and denounced slavery in no uncertain terms, and what he said is recorded and you can access those words, online.

Joseph Smith advocated that all Black people should be freed. And that all Black people should receive large land grants, and that all Black people should be allowed to vote, and all Black people should be given the love that God wants them to have, which is the pure love of Jesus Christ.

After proclaiming this publicly to the World, Joseph Smith was murdered by enraged Anti-Mormon mob who did not want Black people to be free.

THE Church Of JESUS CHRIST Of Latter Day Saints allowed Dark Skinned Pacific Islanders and Dark Skinned Native Americans to have the Priesthood, and there was never segregation at Church, and that was so right from the very beginning.

That is so because those Dark Skinned People were not slaves under the thumb of Anti-Mormon scumbags.

Now the descendants of the Preachers who Preached hate against Mormons, while at the same time they advocated in favor of slavery for Black people of African descent, they now days smear Mormons,

meanwhile Mormons celebrate life not the sins of the World, despite the blatant lies spread against them by their slimy Anti-Mormon detractors.

The Mormon Church has lots of weird things about it, if you study it. It is Big Business driven.

I use to live in Boise, Idaho when it was predominately Mormon. Back then Mormons could not drink coffee, or cola drinks. Now they can because the church bought a coffee company and Royal Crown Cola company.

Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church said he was given the Tablets by an angel to write the Book of Mormon. Those Tablets have never been seen by anyone. Mormons believe Jesus came to visit Joseph Smith in the United States and in South America. The Garden of Eden was in Missouri.

Mormons are members of a Cult, because they believe in a Jesus of Latter Day Saints in the United States.

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Black skin is supposed to be the mark of Cain, but I never got a clear answer if that included really dark Asians like from Bangladesh.